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Word: tactful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Sealingwax's reception calls for young Bull's first big show of tact. "One of his chief duties is to be affable to bores." Each official party has important guests "devoid of social graces and who stand around in dreary isolation." Nothing, Cheke affirms, is worse than "dreary individuals standing in gloomy and solitary silence." To save the reception England expects young John Bull to find his tongue and chat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: The Thing to Avoid | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Always Swore . . ." The armistice agreement was in large part due to the immense ability, patience, tact and unflagging good humor of Ralph Bunche, Negro social scientist (A.B., University of California at Los Angeles; Ph.D., Harvard) who had taken over the role of martyred Count Folke Bernadotte. Several times during the seven weeks of negotiations, agreement had seemed hopeless. Each time Dr. Bunche had thought of something to keep the talks alive. By last week, the negotiators on both sides had come to regard him as a new colossus of Rhodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Peace in a Smoke-Filled Room | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Tact & Courtesy. The wedding festivities last week were opened by Countess di Frasso with a dinner and dance at the Whip Club, which steamed along until 7 in the morning. The guests, as one of them put it, were "not only the cream of Roman society, but the cream of the cream." There was Vittoria Caetani, Dowager Duchess of Sermoneta, ex-lady in waiting to the ex-Queen of Italy. Her latest book, Sparkle Distant Worlds, is quite sad: "Now we began hearing of the first horrors of war, Poland invaded . . . a British passenger steamer sunk off the Hebrides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: And Circuses | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Hafstad's job in the AEC will require at least as much tact as physics. He will have to get along with atom-minded private companies, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, and with the Navy and Air Force, which are also atom-minded. "The intent," he says, "is to increase the tempo and get more aggressive and effective work going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reactor Man | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...lawyer, with a charming wife and two soundly precocious children; he seems to have everything he could reasonably want. He is intelligent, sensitive, attractive to women; he loves his wife. Yet suddenly there occurs what Mrs. Harmon calls, with deadly chivalry, "the trouble." Harmon's humiliation, handled with tact and delicacy by everyone, including Author Davidson, is that he has become impotent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grandeur Regained | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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